Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Monday Michael Ware appeared on The Situation Room and Campbell Brown's program to discuss what needs to happen in order for the US to get out of Afghanistan. He will also be appearing as part of CNN's team covering President Obama's address to the nation tonight.

Utilizing its world-wide resources, CNN will provide live, global, multi-platform coverage of President Barack Obama’s address on Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec. 1. Special coverage of Decision: Afghanistan will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET. Surrounding the President’s address at 8 p.m. ET, CNN lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer, along with Campbell Brown and Anderson Cooper will anchor live coverage from New York. CNN anchors including Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, John King and Fareed Zakaria will offer insight and analysis. Senior political analysts Gloria Borger and David Gergen will provide political perspective, while senior White House correspondent Ed Henry reports live from West Point, the site of President Obama’s address. CNN’s Michael Ware will also be reporting from New York and will offer his foreign affairs expertise. Special coverage will kick off at 7 p.m. with a special edition of CNN Tonight with John Roberts anchoring.

6 comments:

Michael Ware may be very knowledgeable and his expertise precise, but he needs to be told that when he is making a formal presentation, such as the one he did with John King and his magic wall map in front of a multitude of cameras, in reference to the Afgan War, and Obama's military strategy, he MUST dress for the occassion. There was Mr. King, dressed to the nines, as he should be, and there was Michael Ware, looking slovenly, as though he had just jumped out of bed and landed on national television. No other channel would put up with his nonsense and neither should CNN. Presentation is everything, and the way in which one appears on camera, especially in HD, is important, if he is to be taken seriously. We all know his background and yes, he knows and understands the regions better than most, but would it hurt if he wore a jacket over his sloppy blue shirt? Just asking.

Michael Ware,Fareed Zakaria, Christiane,Nic Robertson, Peter Bergen, Barbara Starrand Chris Lawrence made CNN's coveragethe best. I did not have a problem with Ware's attire. There is only 1 criticism.CNN needs to stop saying polls are howall Americans feel. They need to start sayingrespondents,participants or those polled.Even pollsters are warning it is how thequestion is asked. Also, I thought someon the panel were trying to confuse remarksfrom Obama on Afghanistan and Iraq, Hesaid he would bring the troops home fromIraq.Obama made many different statementson Afghanistan.

CNN had the best coverage hands down.MSNBC got on my nerves. One thing I hopethis signals is that CNN will give the reportersa much larger role. Where was Candy Crowley?Mo Rocca has the best tweets about the seatingarrangements.CNN please bring back the hourof international news at noon.CNN is in the newsbiz. Hand things over to the best journalists andnews team.